Adele Climbs the Funeral Music Chart (Also: There Are Funeral Music Charts)

Newly minted Bond girl, Grammy winner, and otherwise flawless songstress Adele has ascended yet another music chart, this time of the funeral-subgenre variety—the most surprising revelation here being that there is a funeral music chart. The bizarre news arrives via NME, which notes that Adele’s hit single “Someone Like You” is now ranked 22nd among “Co-operative Funeralcare’s chart of the top music played at funerals.” For the seventh year in a row, Frank Sinatra’s “My Way” is listed as the most popular. Other pop songs commonly requested to usher the fallen into the hypothetical afterlife: Bette Midler’s “Wind Beneath My Wings,” Whitney Houston’s “I Will Always Love You,” and most regrettably for funeral attendees, Celine Dion’s Titanicanthem, “My Heart Will Go On.”